I live in a very wooded forest like area. I have to deal with tranchulas,blackwidows and fiddlebacks/brown recluse, webspiders don't bother me to much there not the ones trying to get in my house. I do spray poison around the foundation of my house for the ground hunting spiders. My husband relocates the tranchulas.
If you don't like the spiders I would just continue to remove the webs in the early morning or while there making them at night. I have a covered deck I don't like walking into them and then fnding them crawling on me afterwards so when I see one starting a web on my deck I remove the web after a while they move on to somewhere else. I feel like spiders have there place but not in my house or deck if there in my garden I leave them be and I leave them alone in the trees too. I have heard mothball crystals keeps them away but I havent tried it.
If you don't like the spiders I would just continue to remove the webs in the early morning or while there making them at night. I have a covered deck I don't like walking into them and then fnding them crawling on me afterwards so when I see one starting a web on my deck I remove the web after a while they move on to somewhere else. I feel like spiders have there place but not in my house or deck if there in my garden I leave them be and I leave them alone in the trees too. I have heard mothball crystals keeps them away but I havent tried it.
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that's something I miss about living in oklahoma, all the great spiders! trapdoor spiders, huge wolf spiders, every possible kind of jumping spider, big brown tarantulas running across the dirt roads..
ok, so I'm a little weird that way
I remember when I learned how to identify brown recluses, and realized my house was full of them. but I left them alone and they did the same for me.
that's something I miss about living in oklahoma, all the great spiders! trapdoor spiders, huge wolf spiders, every possible kind of jumping spider, big brown tarantulas running across the dirt roads..
ok, so I'm a little weird that way
I remember when I learned how to identify brown recluses, and realized my house was full of them. but I left them alone and they did the same for me.
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I actually work with spiders at my local wildlife sanctuary I love the critters!
if u live in a southern region obviously watch out for black widows but the brow recluse is another nasty little one they live in gardens potted plants and they can live even as far north as southern wisconsin...if your bit by it you are probably due for a heart attack...to identify it look at its abdomen it looks rather large for the rest of the spider then you know its a bad one and obviously its brown
(I love reptiles and insects)
if u live in a southern region obviously watch out for black widows but the brow recluse is another nasty little one they live in gardens potted plants and they can live even as far north as southern wisconsin...if your bit by it you are probably due for a heart attack...to identify it look at its abdomen it looks rather large for the rest of the spider then you know its a bad one and obviously its brown
(I love reptiles and insects)
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Gallum, you would fit right in with some of my friends who love the reptiles and spiders as well. I'm not so big on snakes but like other reptiles.
I found another large spider outsie my bedroom yesterday that I tried to pick up but, it wouldn't let me so, I used a piece of paper to move it outside to the garden where it will find much more food than inside the house.
So, don't kill the spider folks! Move them out to your garden where they will do you good!
(And even though snakes give me the heebee Jeebees, I do have places in the garden that attract the guys, they eat all the slugs so, that is a good thing)
I found another large spider outsie my bedroom yesterday that I tried to pick up but, it wouldn't let me so, I used a piece of paper to move it outside to the garden where it will find much more food than inside the house.
So, don't kill the spider folks! Move them out to your garden where they will do you good!
(And even though snakes give me the heebee Jeebees, I do have places in the garden that attract the guys, they eat all the slugs so, that is a good thing)
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